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Severity Grading of Southern Leaf Blight on Corn Leaves
Chanae Ottley
PhD Student, NC State University
is speaking on April 24, 2026.
🔧 Senior Design Day | Project 27
A metal piece slides over a coil. That tiny motion controls your entire power tool. Team 27 replaced the mechanical trigger with an inductive sensor that generates a clean signal every time you pull. No grinding contacts, no replacement parts. Just cleaner engineering.
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Pushing wireless further. Inside ICaSL, NC State ECE researchers are designing RF systems that reach into millimeter wave frequencies and open new ways to connect and sense the world 📡🌍
NC State ECE associate professor Tianfu Wu and Ph.D. student Rui Xue will present their HarmonyGNN framework at ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro later this month. The framework improves how graph neural networks handle complex, real-world data and sets new benchmarks on four industry-standard tests.
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NC State ECE had a strong showing in the 2026 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings. The Computer Engineering program rose nine spots to No. 27 nationally and No. 14 among public universities. Electrical Engineering climbed two spots to No. 31.
"These results reflect the strength of our faculty, the quality of our students and the impact of our research and industry partnerships," said department head Veena Misra.
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NC State’s Centennial Campus is full of landmarks, beautiful outdoor spaces, cutting edge research, state-of-the-art facilities and ways to find — and celebrate with — your community.
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As one of only two institutions to be home to two concurrent NSF Engineering Research Centers, one of three NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research Initiatives, the home of the Department of Energy’s PowerAmerica Institute, leads the only North America IBM Quantum Hub, and home to one of The Microelectronics Commons’ Hubs, we are ranked among the top academic units engaged in scientific research in the United States.
